Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Sun 14 May 2023 at 06:54:25 (+0200), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:00:23PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >   5.1.3. Noteworthy obsolete packages
> > 
> >       The following is a list of known and noteworthy obsolete packages
> >       (see Section 4.8, “Obsolete packages” for a description).
> 
> [...]
> 
> Now this one has more substance. It seems to me, though, that
> upstream found maintainers and someone in Debian cares enough
> to keep the package alive -- so it went from deprecated to
> just non-default.

In 2009, the path ahead was outlined in:

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00780.html

but I don't think some of the options (like wrappers) are under
consideration after more than a decade of parallel working with ip.

This opinion raised a chuckle in the lwn article:

 "But I'm not seeing any real advantage here. Sure,
  ifconfig doesn't support all the new networking features,
  but basic "ifconfig blah0 up" still works just fine.

Cheers,
David.